Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-03-25
SENATOR SHERMAN,S SPEECH.
He Talks 60 the Republican Member
q the Tennessee LegislAture.
STATES RIGHTs AND CIVIL RIGHrS-k1PUBIIcANA AID
DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLES c0NTRAsTED-AN EXTRA
SESSION OF CONGRESS-.

SBSSiON OF CONGRESS.
senator Sherman delivered an address to the
Republican members OF the Tennessee legislature,
In the legislative hall at Nashville yesterday. He
said he felt that the differences which grew out Of
the war now hold a large body of honest aud
patriotic citizens Of the South from cooperating
with the Republican party who were, In his judy
ment In sympathy with 1t. He said he thought
the people OF Tennessee could secure from the Re-
publican policy more and greater benefits and
advantages than can possibly be conferred upon
them by the Democratic party.
"When first entered political nfe," he said, 81
was In hearty sympathy with the majority of the
people OF Tennessee. was disciple Of that
school OF politics OF which Henry Clay and John Bell
that the Constitution Of the United states was the
bond OF Federal Union. written BIZ our fathers
not strcty Ike an inaeseo not
like a bond framed by q usurer which a cum
ming Portia Ia. might construe away by subtle
reasoning but charter OF liberty, to be construed
literally and so as to carry out all the objects OF
STATES RIGHTS
81 was also taught to love, cherish and respect
the rights Of the States, and to regard them
as the agents OF the people for local purposes
cisely as the General Government is the agent OF
the people for national purposes State rights as
distinguished from national authority has been
the people at large both state and Nation are con-
venfent agencies for the exercise OF distinct and
separate powers for the common good. TO the In
dvdual citizen they are the guardians OF distinct
and separate rights and privileges for which we
owe allegiance and duty. They are not hostile
spheres, but like the planets moving in the grand
harmony OF the universe, in friendly corporations
but 1t Is the people the whole people, and nothing
but the people, that Is the governing and para
mount power OF our system. This, at least, Is The
theory ! have been taught, and IL any OF you,
reared IN different school, have inherited teal-
ousy and suspicion OF federal authority and OF
peca reverence for that OF the State OF Tennessee
you may find In this the germ of the controversy
fought out In the war. II understand the
PRINCIPLES OF TIE REPUBLICAN PARTY
would say they are embraced in the trinity OF
union, Constitution and Countrywide preservation
OF the Union; the maintenance of the full powers
OF the Constitution, and the growth prosperity
and grandeur OF our country in all its parts as it
now or is to be. These ideas we inherit from the
wisest statesmen In American history, and now,
since they have been reaffrmed by the war, there
is nothing to divide American citizens by sectional
lines but prejudice and passion.
"Thts was not so before the war. Our fathers
found In most OF the states a system OF servituTe
inconsistent with the genius OF her institutions.
They did not undertake to deal with it, nor was
the feeling against slavery confined TO sectional
lines The most eloquent denunciation Of slavery
came from Jefferson and Mason, and it had its In
terested defenders both North and South. Our
fathers found it and left it local institution
to the States, but provided that fugitives from
service escaping from one State to another should
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